Rising Child Care Costs Force Parents to Choose: Career or Kids? ^0%

KQED - By Alan Montecillo, Daisy Nguyen, Jessica Kariisa, Francesca Fenzi - 4/13/2026, 10:00 AM

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Rising child care prices leave many Bay Area parents with little choice but to turn down career opportunities, cut back hours, or even quit. As part of KQED’s new series on affordability, early childhood education reporter Daisy Nguyen introduces us to one mother who left her job as a teacher after the birth of her third child. <iframe... more